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To this day, Eva Cassidy is my favorite female vocalist. She had mad acoustic guitar skills and she made every song her own. Such a loss. You should listen to her version of songbird. It’s stunning.
Cavamom check out Lucy Thomas cover/tribute to Eva singing the same song and you will have a new favorite female vocalist, I have never heard a better singer than Lucy Thomas !!!
( with teardrops down my cheeks.....) One ☝️ of The Most Beautiful Female singing🎤🎶 voices I’ve ever heard in my 50+ years on Earth 🌍 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽💗💗👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰 Eva died the same year of this performance November 1996 at age 33. ANGELS WEPT 🎆
Brandon Suggest you go to you tube and find Lucy Thomas's cover TRIBUTE to Eva and you will be AMAZED at what she did and Lucy was only 16 when she sang the cover /tribute to Eva !!!
The first time I heard Eva Cassidy was in 2012. I wish I'd recorded my reaction because it literally brought me to tears and I'm a grown man not ashamed to admit it. It was great I was awestruck.
Eva took songs you thought you knew, and made them brand new hers. If she didn't feel it, she didn't do it. I discovered Eva when this was released 10 years after her death. Hard to imagine she was singing with a cold that night. I have every recording she ever did now, and listen to her often. I miss her, and never met her.
I can't listen to this without getting chills and breaking into tears. Nobody sings it like Judy Garland did, but this rendition reaches me deep inside and grabs hold of part of me that's hard to get to. The sublime guitar and her beautiful voice transport me to a simpler time. I love it. Thanks.
I was always amazed at her ability to have such a strong voice and yet be completely vulnerable at the same time. The entire album Live at Blues Alley is stunning.
No one could ever perform this song like this witouut a true love and dedication to her first love, music. Her Dad, Hugh, said she made the guitar work too complicated. Eva proved him wrong. If this doesn't move you, you have to see if like the Tin Man you have a heart.
Eva Cassidy is a gem. There was only one, never to be repeated. Here voice is ethereal and grabs you and takes you right in the music. I had the privileged of seeing her live twice. Her performance was above outstanding. When she sang, there was total silence, it was if everyone knew we were seeing greatness and didn't want to miss a thing. If you aren't aware of her, there are any number of her videos here on TH-cam.
I really appreciate you letting the song play all the way through without stopping to comment, the way most "Reaction" tubes do. It's much more respectful of the artist and the performance.
James I agree 100%. So many reactions stop the song shortly and pass jusgement without hearing the whole song and I too think it is disrespectful and it breaks the flow of the song, Some won't stop but too many do !! !
For many of us, this song was our introduction to the wondrous voice that was Eva Cassidy. It was first introduced on the UK’ BBC Radio 2 in the summer of 2000, two years after she passed from breast cancer and 4 years after this had been recorded at the Blues Alley, in Washington, DC. A special about Eva and the song by the BBC was also aired in later 2000. Then one of their correspondents brought the broadcast to the ABCNews Nightline broadcast which aired on New Years Eve 2000, only to become the most requested rebroadcast in the history of Nightline, and started Eve’s posthumous career. But it did change the fact that Eve easily became considered one of the great female voices of the 20th century. Her family has worked hard for the past 20 years to bring to life all of Eva’s performances clan the recordings up as much as technically possible. Her body of work is just phenomenal.
Thank you so much for reacting to Eva Cassidy in this beautiful and now iconic performance. It was one of those unique and one-off performances that can never be repeated. You may or may not know that less than a year after, in November 1996, Eva sadly passed away from melanoma at only 33 years of age. If you haven't heard her other music, it is well worth listening to.
John Byatt Sadly John you are wrong as young Lucy Thomas sang a cover/tribute to Eva, same song with guitar and blew Eva away !!! Lucy sang a much better version, better guitar accompanyment, and just a fabulous cover/tribute to Eva, yes a great performance can and was repeated. Check out Lucy and see for yourself, I found Eva because of Lucy !!
Thank you for watching the video as a whole and not stopping constantly. I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, but Judy laid the template anticipating Eva. This is my favorite version ever. I love her record but I hate cancer more.
Lyle Fales then you will appreciate Lucy Thomas's cover/tribute to Eva that she did singing this song. Check her out on you tube and be amazed at her singing talent. she out sings Eva !!
I love this performance. Her voice has a special purity. But I also live the guitar… and the fact that she finds lovely interesting new harmonies. Then finally, I think the “standard version” of this song is so well known that it is impossible to hear any rendition without simultaneous awareness of the standard version. In this case, I think the classic version acts as a subtext… an implied melodic counterpoint that floats in the background like a duet …even without needing to be played
What a terrific comment! Yes. The original floats in the background, and it is a kind of duet... in some otherworldly way beyond my understanding. Myself, I can hardly hear Eva without weeping... both for the beauty of her performances and the little, too little time we had her for.
The back story to this song is that this is a SAD song because when sung and recorded in a club Eva was dying of cancer, just a couple of months later, why she was sitting down when she sang and why the song is so sad. NOW for your information Young Lucy Thomas of the UK sang a cover TRIBUTE to Eva who she liked...... Lucy also sang sitting down and accompanyed by James Franklin on the Guitar and quite frankly there could NOT have been a better tribute to Eva than what Lucy sang !!! She was spectacular as was James on the guitar, I thought on Eva's version the guitar over powered Eva. I would strongly suggest you listen to Lucy's version either for your own satisfaction or as a reaction, you owe it to yourself at least because Lucy out sings Eva and has a better presentation. I found Eva's version because I listened to Lucy's version and never heard of Eva, so went and searched her out, easy as it is easy to find Lucy's on You tube. Check out Lucy and be amazed !!!! Lucy also has about 60 other songs recorded and also sings with her 5 year younger sister.
To me, this is the most exquisite thing that has ever been recorded. I have always believed this song was about heaven, and I believe that is what she was thinking when she performed it. Sadly, she would actually be in heaven just a short while later. To me, this is what I will hear when I enter the gates of Heaven. Eva’s voice
Interesting you mentioned "house of blues type feel" because it was recorded at a gig at a place called "Blues Alley" which was in the Georgetown section of D.C. (not sure if it's still there). Greatest version of the song for me after I heard her, may she rest in peace.
As it should be. If I was in the audience that night, I wouldn't have been able to utter a word during this performance even if I wanted to. All the breath would have been gone from my body. This is an utterly magnificent performance. This song has been covered by so many artists over the decades, but I have NEVER heard anyone sing it like this. Ever.
@@wilburfinnigan2142 this performance was recorded in January of 1996. Eva was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in June or July of that year. She had had a malignant mole removed years earlier but it was discovered that the cancer had returned when she had a fall and landed on her hip. She thought the pain was from the fall but a scan showed the cancer in her bones and in her lungs. She passed away in November of 1996 at the age of 33. She sang 31 songs that night and she worked during the day so she probably needed the stool to sit on after working all day, suffering from a cold and singing those 31 songs.
I maybe an ass saying this , BUT much of the time i prize feeling , emotion, expression as highly as the quality of a persons voice , probably more so , a fantastic voice is great BUT without the heart driving it , well then to me it is hollow, my god this is how to do it, i am a middle aged dude , a tough guy ;) and i cry most often when i hear her sing this .
Will then you will appreciate the back story of this song !! Eva was a couple of months from dying when she sang this sad version, why she was sitting down, and you will also appreciate Lucy Thomas cover/tribute to Eva also, as she was a favorite of Lucy. and Lucy did a bang up job of tribute to Eva but Lucy did out sing Eva !! !
This was sung in January,1963. She was told in June or July of that same year that her melanoma has reoccurred and it was metastatic. She died November 2, 1963. Gone too soon💔🥲♥️
Now, Dorothy dear stop even imagining things. You always get yourself into a fret over nothing. Now you just help us out today and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble. Dorothy: (To herself) Someplace where there isn't any trouble. (To Toto) Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon... Beyond the rain.
Very, very good reaction to a great rendition of a classic. However, the audio for your video has issues. In the analog audio of my youth, I would say that the signal was degraded by over-amplification. I don't know what the digital equivalent is, but the degraded signal was not helped by reducing any of the volume controls available to me. And the degraded signal in your audio is not evident on the other videos / reactions of this cover. Thanks in advance for fixing this, as I believe that I would otherwise enjoy your reactions very much. Oh, and one more clue, your analysis after the song didn't seem to have the distorted audio problem.
Bottom line. If you took 100 people that never heard this song and played both versions. Judy Garland and Eva Cassidy. 95 would pick Eva Cassidy guaranteed. It was taped by a friend. Not a production package.
Yes, she was amazing. Too bad she was already dying at the time she was being photographed here.... She died a little over ten months later. Good thing someone just happened to photograph her, even if it was in black and white..,.,.,She was dying of cancer, so I think she was seriously thinking of somewhere over the rainbow...maybe away from pain....
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Yeah but she specifically was quoted as saying the cold had effected her performance. And she wasn't completely happy about it. Not that it was noticeable for the rest of us.
This song was recorded in January of 1963. In June or July of 1963 she was told that she had a reoccurrence of melanoma and it was metastatic. She died a free months later November 2, 1963.
@@jedislap8726 Right. This performance was in January of 1996. Eva was diagnosed with melanoma in July of that year and died in November. I so wish she had lived to enjoy the massive success she so rightly deserved.
@@Marcus_1001 However, she had had treatment for the cancer sometime before. So I wonder if she somehow felt something was up - the cancer had spread widely to bones etc by the time of the July diagnosis (following hip pain) Whatever, such an emotional and communicating performance, can so easily bring tears ....
@@keithwatkins8338 Yeah. From what I understand she went to the doctor because she was experiencing some pain in her hips so she probably had an idea something was going on. It's so very sad.
If you mess with a classic you better improve it. If this was made 'current' then it is a bit to current for me. Then again, I am not the type to go to a poetry reading and snap my fingers because somebody read a page out of their diary either.
To this day, Eva Cassidy is my favorite female vocalist. She had mad acoustic guitar skills and she made every song her own. Such a loss. You should listen to her version of songbird. It’s stunning.
Cavamom check out Lucy Thomas cover/tribute to Eva singing the same song and you will have a new favorite female vocalist, I have never heard a better singer than Lucy Thomas !!!
( with teardrops down my cheeks.....) One ☝️ of The Most Beautiful Female singing🎤🎶 voices I’ve ever heard in my 50+ years on Earth 🌍 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽💗💗👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰 Eva died the same year of this performance November 1996 at age 33. ANGELS WEPT 🎆
Brandon Suggest you go to you tube and find Lucy Thomas's cover TRIBUTE to Eva and you will be AMAZED at what she did and Lucy was only 16 when she sang the cover /tribute to Eva !!!
The first time I heard Eva Cassidy was in 2012. I wish I'd recorded my reaction because it literally brought me to tears and I'm a grown man not ashamed to admit it. It was great I was awestruck.
Eva took songs you thought you knew, and made them brand new hers. If she didn't feel it, she didn't do it. I discovered Eva when this was released 10 years after her death. Hard to imagine she was singing with a cold that night. I have every recording she ever did now, and listen to her often. I miss her, and never met her.
Ditto
I can't listen to this without getting chills and breaking into tears. Nobody sings it like Judy Garland did, but this rendition reaches me deep inside and grabs hold of part of me that's hard to get to. The sublime guitar and her beautiful voice transport me to a simpler time. I love it. Thanks.
She holds the tragedy and beauty of the world with each note.
@@wcstrawberryfields8011 Well said, well said.
I'm right there with you.
Her voice touches my soul like very few can R.I.L dear Eva thank u for sharing your wonderful gift 💕
Every time I hear sing this song I cry for what I don't know her voice is just so pure and beautiful!
I was always amazed at her ability to have such a strong voice and yet be completely vulnerable at the same time. The entire album Live at Blues Alley is stunning.
Best interpretation of this song ever. ❤❤❤
Eva Cassidy was *"A Gift to Mankind"*
She tells her story and draws you deeply into it.
No one could ever perform this song like this witouut a true love and dedication to her first love, music. Her Dad, Hugh, said she made the guitar work too complicated. Eva proved him wrong. If this doesn't move you, you have to see if like the Tin Man you have a heart.
Eva Cassidy is a gem. There was only one, never to be repeated. Here voice is ethereal and grabs you and takes you right in the music. I had the privileged of seeing her live twice. Her performance was above outstanding. When she sang, there was total silence, it was if everyone knew we were seeing greatness and didn't want to miss a thing. If you aren't aware of her, there are any number of her videos here on TH-cam.
Well Said
There is one very close, Ms. Haley Reinhart. Check them both singing Chain of fools and see what you think.
I really appreciate you letting the song play all the way through without stopping to comment, the way most "Reaction" tubes do. It's much more respectful of the artist and the performance.
Yes, me too. ♥️
James I agree 100%. So many reactions stop the song shortly and pass jusgement without hearing the whole song and I too think it is disrespectful and it breaks the flow of the song, Some won't stop but too many do !! !
I can't listen to this, without tears rolling down my face. Played this at my sisters funeral 😢
Me too. I cry everytime I hear it. So very beautiful. My condolences on the loss of your sister.May she RIP.
May your sister get to listen to Eva Cassidy in person. ❤️
One of my favourite songs, she had a beautiful voice and skill playing the guitar.
For many of us, this song was our introduction to the wondrous voice that was Eva Cassidy. It was first introduced on the UK’ BBC Radio 2 in the summer of 2000, two years after she passed from breast cancer and 4 years after this had been recorded at the Blues Alley, in Washington, DC. A special about Eva and the song by the BBC was also aired in later 2000. Then one of their correspondents brought the broadcast to the ABCNews Nightline broadcast which aired on New Years Eve 2000, only to become the most requested rebroadcast in the history of Nightline, and started Eve’s posthumous career. But it did change the fact that Eve easily became considered one of the great female voices of the 20th century. Her family has worked hard for the past 20 years to bring to life all of Eva’s performances clan the recordings up as much as technically possible. Her body of work is just phenomenal.
She passed from melanoma. Skin cancer.
@@Marlaina True !! NOT breast cancer !!!
Thank you so much for reacting to Eva Cassidy in this beautiful and now iconic performance. It was one of those unique and one-off performances that can never be repeated. You may or may not know that less than a year after, in November 1996, Eva sadly passed away from melanoma at only 33 years of age. If you haven't heard her other music, it is well worth listening to.
Thanks, John, for the info about her. How very tragic. I miss this type of music so much.
John Byatt Sadly John you are wrong as young Lucy Thomas sang a cover/tribute to Eva, same song with guitar and blew Eva away !!! Lucy sang a much better version, better guitar accompanyment, and just a fabulous cover/tribute to Eva, yes a great performance can and was repeated. Check out Lucy and see for yourself, I found Eva because of Lucy !!
Greatest singer of all time. No one matches her all around ability.
I love her voice so much ❤ And prefer this cover to the original 😊
Thank you for watching the video as a whole and not stopping constantly. I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, but Judy laid the template anticipating Eva. This is my favorite version ever. I love her record but I hate cancer more.
Lyle Fales then you will appreciate Lucy Thomas's cover/tribute to Eva that she did singing this song. Check her out on you tube and be amazed at her singing talent. she out sings Eva !!
Only one word...Sublime.
To play this fingerpicling style while bring both the guitar and vocals up and down...amazing emotional vocals
She was great at showing you what the song meant to her.
Eva was just months from dying of skin cancer when she sang this sad version, why she was sitting down !!!
I love this performance. Her voice has a special purity. But I also live the guitar… and the fact that she finds lovely interesting new harmonies. Then finally, I think the “standard version” of this song is so well known that it is impossible to hear any rendition without simultaneous awareness of the standard version. In this case, I think the classic version acts as a subtext… an implied melodic counterpoint that floats in the background like a duet …even without needing to be played
What a terrific comment! Yes. The original floats in the background, and it is a kind of duet... in some otherworldly way beyond my understanding.
Myself, I can hardly hear Eva without weeping... both for the beauty of her performances and the little, too little time we had her for.
@@miketackabery7521
Thx for your comment. Yes…. So heart rending…. As near perfect as any performance I have ever heard
The back story to this song is that this is a SAD song because when sung and recorded in a club Eva was dying of cancer, just a couple of months later, why she was sitting down when she sang and why the song is so sad. NOW for your information Young Lucy Thomas of the UK sang a cover TRIBUTE to Eva who she liked...... Lucy also sang sitting down and accompanyed by James Franklin on the Guitar and quite frankly there could NOT have been a better tribute to Eva than what Lucy sang !!! She was spectacular as was James on the guitar, I thought on Eva's version the guitar over powered Eva. I would strongly suggest you listen to Lucy's version either for your own satisfaction or as a reaction, you owe it to yourself at least because Lucy out sings Eva and has a better presentation. I found Eva's version because I listened to Lucy's version and never heard of Eva, so went and searched her out, easy as it is easy to find Lucy's on You tube. Check out Lucy and be amazed !!!! Lucy also has about 60 other songs recorded and also sings with her 5 year younger sister.
This is my favorite song by my favorite singer.RIP
To me, this is the most exquisite thing that has ever been recorded. I have always believed this song was about heaven, and I believe that is what she was thinking when she performed it. Sadly, she would actually be in heaven just a short while later. To me, this is what I will hear when I enter the gates of Heaven. Eva’s voice
fields of gold Eva Cassidy. I never liked "Sting" but I absolutely love her voice and Fields of Gold I feel is her best.
Sting said Eva Cassidy’s rendition of Fields of Gold was his favorite of all who performed it.
Yes....AND Songbird.
She was taken from us far too soon, but God has another angel now !
You never had to say anything. Your face and body language tells the whole story. Like me, you have fallen in love with the lovely Eva.
Interesting you mentioned "house of blues type feel" because it was recorded at a gig at a place called "Blues Alley" which was in the Georgetown section of D.C. (not sure if it's still there). Greatest version of the song for me after I heard her, may she rest in peace.
Blues Alley is still there :)
@@davidkyle5017 Nice to know, thanks.
She told you what a song meant to her soul. We see you get it when you put your head on your hand.
The video is restored footage from an old cam-corder; the rapt silence of the audience was real.
As it should be. If I was in the audience that night, I wouldn't have been able to utter a word during this performance even if I wanted to. All the breath would have been gone from my body. This is an utterly magnificent performance. This song has been covered by so many artists over the decades, but I have NEVER heard anyone sing it like this. Ever.
Eva had a really bad cold that night and apologized for not being in top form...Amazing!
lukula she was also just a couple of months from dying from cancer why she was sitting down !! and why the song is so sad !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 this performance was recorded in January of 1996. Eva was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in June or July of that year. She had had a malignant mole removed years earlier but it was discovered that the cancer had returned when she had a fall and landed on her hip. She thought the pain was from the fall but a scan showed the cancer in her bones and in her lungs. She passed away in November of 1996 at the age of 33. She sang 31 songs that night and she worked during the day so she probably needed the stool to sit on after working all day, suffering from a cold and singing those 31 songs.
Very nice voice yer good rendition
I really Love this version also love the IZ version from 50 First Dates!
I maybe an ass saying this , BUT much of the time i prize feeling , emotion, expression as highly as the quality of a persons voice , probably more so , a fantastic voice is great BUT without the heart driving it , well then to me it is hollow, my god this is how to do it, i am a middle aged dude , a tough guy ;) and i cry most often when i hear her sing this .
Will then you will appreciate the back story of this song !! Eva was a couple of months from dying when she sang this sad version, why she was sitting down, and you will also appreciate Lucy Thomas cover/tribute to Eva also, as she was a favorite of Lucy. and Lucy did a bang up job of tribute to Eva but Lucy did out sing Eva !! !
This was sung in January,1963. She was told in June or July of that same year that her melanoma has reoccurred and it was metastatic. She died November 2, 1963. Gone too soon💔🥲♥️
Now, Dorothy dear stop even imagining things. You always get yourself into a fret over nothing. Now you just help us out today and find yourself a place where you won't get into any trouble.
Dorothy: (To herself) Someplace where there isn't any trouble. (To Toto) Do you suppose there is such a place, Toto? There must be. It's not a place you can get to by a boat or a train. It's far, far away. Behind the moon... Beyond the rain.
Oh my God.
Very, very good reaction to a great rendition of a classic. However, the audio for your video has issues. In the analog audio of my youth, I would say that the signal was degraded by over-amplification. I don't know what the digital equivalent is, but the degraded signal was not helped by reducing any of the volume controls available to me. And the degraded signal in your audio is not evident on the other videos / reactions of this cover. Thanks in advance for fixing this, as I believe that I would otherwise enjoy your reactions very much. Oh, and one more clue, your analysis after the song didn't seem to have the distorted audio problem.
I think her version is better than the original.
Bottom line. If you took 100 people that never heard this song and played both versions. Judy Garland and Eva Cassidy. 95 would pick Eva Cassidy guaranteed. It was taped by a friend. Not a production package.
Yes, she was amazing. Too bad she was already dying at the time she was being photographed here.... She died a little over ten months later. Good thing someone just happened to photograph her, even if it was in black and white..,.,.,She was dying of cancer, so I think she was seriously thinking of somewhere over the rainbow...maybe away from pain....
I think singing this song has some tragic endings....Judy...IZ....Eva.
She wasn't happy with this performance because she had a cold when it was recorded.
Kim a cold was the least of Eva's worries, she was dying of cancer !!! A couple of months later she died !!!
@@wilburfinnigan2142 Yeah but she specifically was quoted as saying the cold had effected her performance. And she wasn't completely happy about it. Not that it was noticeable for the rest of us.
This song was recorded in January of 1963. In June or July of 1963 she was told that she had a reoccurrence of melanoma and it was metastatic. She died a free months later November 2, 1963.
peaking just a little distortion...
I do believe that at the time of this performance she knew she was terminally ill.
She did not receive the cancer diagnosis until the following June. This performance took place in January.
@@patriciameyer8798 She had a previous melanoma diagnosis.
James...Yes she did and she died a couple of months later !! 1
@@jamesbassett1484 Yes... she was sick and knew she was dying, why the song is so sad in its vibes !! !
She had just discovered she had cancer the day she recorded this video gone to soon
No. She was diagnosed 5 months AFTER this performance and died about 4/5 months later.
@@jedislap8726 Right. This performance was in January of 1996. Eva was diagnosed with melanoma in July of that year and died in November. I so wish she had lived to enjoy the massive success she so rightly deserved.
@@Marcus_1001 However, she had had treatment for the cancer sometime before. So I wonder if she somehow felt something was up - the cancer had spread widely to bones etc by the time of the July diagnosis (following hip pain) Whatever, such an emotional and communicating performance, can so easily bring tears ....
@@keithwatkins8338 Yeah. From what I understand she went to the doctor because she was experiencing some pain in her hips so she probably had an idea something was going on. It's so very sad.
Pronounced E-VA
Just watched the Lucy Thomas version which is great but it's a knock off of Eva Cassidy and Lucy is Lip Syncing and Eva did it live.
If you mess with a classic you better improve it. If this was made 'current' then it is a bit to current for me. Then again, I am not the type to go to a poetry reading and snap my fingers because somebody read a page out of their diary either.
This is my favorite song by my favorite singer.RIP